The Film Daily (1920)

ifoBRADSTREET f FILHDOM zmm 7/cRECOCHIZED AUTHORITY DL. XIV No. 34 Thursday, November 4, 1920 Price 5 Cents 17 State Theaters *w Under Construction for Loew's. Inc.— Total No. of Houses 104 Copies of a booklet called "Marcus t\v. Entertainer of a Nation," are t the press. The booklet will be ltributed to Loew patrons during celebration of the 15th anniver; y of the founding of the Loew Eterprises. The booklet reviews activities of the Loew interests id contains some interesting facts ptive to this great circuit of thea 15. Twenty-eight theaters are either i ler course of construction or dened for immediate erection in all jtions of the country. Seventeen i these will be called State Theak and will be located in Boston, iffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Eureka, ., Indianapolis, Long Beach, Cal., \ngeles, Montreal, Newark, ork, Oakland, Cal., Sacrameu( San Francisco, St. Louis, Stockis, Cal., and Toronto. The State, fmphjs, has been completed and it . nulerstood, although not officially i firmed by the Loew offices, that lather will be built in Birmingham. |he Loew chain numbers 104 theirs, operating and under construc1 Thirty-four are in Greater jv York (four building) ; eight in It-eland (three building) ; three in (Continued on Page 2) federated Meeting in St. Louis f.'. E. Shallenberger, general mant of Federated Film Exchanges of ;erica, Inc., states that a memberI meeting will be held bv FederI Nov. 14th, 15th and 16th in St. |is. The members will meet at Statler Hotel. ederated to Open in Boston (By wire to WID'S DAILY) ston — Five hundred exhibitors ted here on Nov. 9 to atopening of the Federated Exchange in this territory. lother Independent I (By wire to WID'S DAILY) bs Angeles — It is reported here Mildred Harris Chaplin, who tone more picture to make for lis B. Mayer, will form her own luting unit, backed by eastern rai. ws. Chaplin in a newspaper inter ihere stated that she does not d billing herself in future proons as Mildred Harris Chaplin, i that she has already made such Jigements as are necessary for I" Dad" and "The Woman in His jse," which will go out as star\ Mildred Harris. Even mother love fails of its accustomed power in "The Forbidden Thing," Allan Dwan's first Associated Producers' picture, with an all-star cast including James Kirkwood, Helen Jerome Eddy and Marcia Manon. — Advt. Slated for Broadway At least four special productions are scheduled for special runs on Broadway as soon as suitable theaters can be obtained for them. Considerable difficulty, however, is being experienced on that score. The pictures are "The Woman in His House," a Louis B. Mayer-lst National production with Mildred Harris Chaplin as star; "Once to Every Woman," Universal-Jewel, with Dorothy Phillips; "Passion," the U. F. A. German-made production starring Pola Negri and distributed in this country by First National, and last, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," which is said to be Metro's most ambitious undertaking and which is now being completed on the coast. Some time ago Al Kaufman stated that he would secure a Broadway theater for "Man, Woman and Mar riage 30 French Films Madame Germaine Dulac, wife of Albert Dulac, the French producer, is in New York from Paris. Madame Dulac has been directing in France for some time. A contract has been closed with the Falkner-T'yrol Prod. Inc. for the distribution in this country of the Dulac productions. Present plans call for the release of 30 of these productions. It has not been decided by Falkncr-Tyrol how the pictures will be handled in this country. Wanger Going Abroad Jesse L. Lasky has appointed Walter F. Wanger gencrl manager of production, with control over all the company's production units in the Allan Holubar's first inde East, Los Angeles, London and India. pendent production. This may he held up pending the premiere at the New Ambassador theater in Los Angeles around Jan. 1. Wanger will leave next month for i trip to Hollywood. In the spring ie will go to London and then visit the new studio in India. New Lynch Deals Still Lining Up Theaters in Southeast— More Transactions Pending (By wire to WID'S DAILY) Atlanta — S. A. Lynch continues to extend his theater holdings in the Southeast. It is understood a deal has been closed for all the theaters in Newnan, Ga., a town of about 5,000 population, about 50 miles southwest of Atlanta, and that negotiations have been practically closed for Opelika, Ala., and La Grange, Ga. The latter town is in Troup County, about 40 miles below Newnan. It is understood that Fitzgerald, Ga., will be the next town to be annexed and that a deal is under way to take over the American theater in Cordele, Ga., and the American in Douglas, Ga. The latter towns are in the southern part of the state and have populations of about 5,000 each. Lynch Buys in Fort Smith, Ark. (By wire to WID'S DAILY) Fort Smith, Ark. — Southern Enterprises, the Lynch subsidiary, has acquired a theater here. It is understood that the theater is the Joie. Sanderson of China in N. Y. F. Marshall Sanderson of Shanghai, China, is visiting Robert W. Priest. Sanderson is looking over the American market with a view to selecting films for China territory. Postponed for Two Weeks The trial of the Clara Kimball Young-Selznick litigation was concluded in the U. S. District Court yesterday but arguments will be finally heard two weeks from today. Smith's Defeat In the picture industry yesterday there was considerable disappointment expressed over the defeat of Governor Smith, because of his active support and friendliness toward pictures. Again in New York Bryant Washburn and his wife, Lee A. Ochs and Mrs. Ochs and Eugene Mullin returned from England yesterday on the Olympic. Had a very pleasant trip over. Cox an Censorship Picture folk just in from Los Angeles say that when Governor Cox visited some of the studios he went on record as saying that he believed in Federal censorship of pictures. This failed to make much of a hit with the picture folk.